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<h2>BirEdit User's Manual</h2>

<h3>Contents:</h3>
<ol>
  <li><a href=#ch0>Compatibility</a>
  <li><a href=#ch1>Features</a>
  <li><a href=#ch2>Command line parameters</a>
  <li><a href=#ch3>Keyboard commands</a>
  <li><a href=#ch4>License</a>
  <li><a href=#ch5>Contributors</a>
</ol>

<a name=ch0><h3>Compatibility</h3></a>
  Program is intended to work under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.

<a name=ch1><h3>Features</h3></a>
  Brief description of general features:
  <ul>
    <li>Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);
    <li>Support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
    <li>Multi-level undo;
    <li>Fast search/replace text strings;
    <li>Syntax highlighting;
    <li>Printing of a document;
    <li>Support of plugins;
    <li>Support of language files.
  </ul>

<a name=ch2><h3>Command line parameters</h3></a>
  BirEdit.exe [options] "file.ext"
  <ul>
    <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>
      <tr>
        <td width="80"><li><b>/p</b></td>
        <td>- print</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>/n</b></td>
        <td>- silently create new file, if doesn't exist</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>/c</b></td>
        <td>- paste clipboard contents</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>/q</b></td>
        <td>- stop parsing command line parameters and close program</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>/u</b></td>
        <td>- remove file associations with BirEdit</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>"file.ext"</b></td>
        <td>- file path (in quotes)</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </ul>

<a name=ch3><h3>Keyboard commands</h3></a>
  <ul>
    <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>
      <tr>
        <td width="150"><li><b>F2</b></td>
        <td>- create file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+O</b></td>
        <td>- open file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>F5</b></td>
        <td>- revert file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+S</b></td>
        <td>- save file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>F6</b></td>
        <td>- save file as...</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+N</b></td>
        <td>- launch new window</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+O</b></td>
        <td>- launch empty window</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+L</b></td>
        <td>- execute file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+L</b></td>
        <td>- open file with...</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+E</b></td>
        <td>- open in Explorer</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+R</b></td>
        <td>- run command</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+P</b></td>
        <td>- print file</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+F4</b></td>
        <td>- exit</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+Z</b></td>
        <td>- undo</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+Z</b></td>
        <td>- redo</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td width="150"><li><b>Ctrl+X</b></td>
        <td>- cut</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+C</b></td>
        <td>- copy</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+C</b></td>
        <td>- copy all</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+E</b></td>
        <td>- add to clipboard contents</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+F9</b></td>
        <td>- copy filepath</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+V</b></td>
        <td>- paste</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+K</b></td>
        <td>- exchange selected text with clipboard contents</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Del</b></td>
        <td>- delete</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+A</b></td>
        <td>- select all</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Tab</b></td>
        <td>- indent</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Tab</b></td>
        <td>- unindent</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+D</b></td>
        <td>- dublicate selection</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+Q</b></td>
        <td>- quote selection</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+Q</b></td>
        <td>- dequote selection</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+U</b></td>
        <td>- uppercase</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+U</b></td>
        <td>- lowercase</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+Alt+I</b></td>
        <td>- invert case</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+Alt+T</b></td>
        <td>- title case</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+Alt+S</b></td>
        <td>- sentence case</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+F</b></td>
        <td>- find</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>F3</b></td>
        <td>- find next</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+F3</b></td>
        <td>- find previous</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+H</b></td>
        <td>- find and replace</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>F4</b></td>
        <td>- replace next</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+F4</b></td>
        <td>- replace previous</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+G</b></td>
        <td>- go to line (by number)</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+B</b></td>
        <td>- find matching brace</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+B</b></td>
        <td>- select to matching brace</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+Q</b></td>
        <td>- enclose selection</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Alt+V</b></td>
        <td>- insert color under cursor (RGB)</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+F5</b></td>
        <td>- insert time and date</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+F8</b></td>
        <td>- insert encoding edintifier</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Ctrl+F9</b></td>
        <td>- insert filename</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+F9</b></td>
        <td>- insert filename with full path</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+N</b></td>
        <td>- normal selection mode</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+L</b></td>
        <td>- line selection mode</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>Shift+Ctrl+C</b></td>
        <td>- column selection mode</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><li><b>F1</b></td>
        <td>- show "About" window</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </ul>

<a name=ch4><h3>License</h3></a>
  This program is distributed under <i>"GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3"</i> conditions. The <i>GNU General Public License</i> is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. It can be found <a href=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>here</a>.

<a name=ch5><h3>Contributors</h3></a>
  Alexey Tatuyko (e-mail: <a href=mailto:tatuich@gmail.com>tatuich@gmail.com</a>)
  <br><a href=http://biredit.fireforge.net/>http://biredit.fireforge.net/</a>

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